Watching your child’s team get clobbered in basketball is decidedly less painful than watching then get clobbered in baseball. Bad basketball is still kinda funny. Bad baseball is just painful.
That said, while I’m not boycotting the Suns’ lost season (this one), I’m not arranging my life around Suns games anymore.
If you divide the world GDP by the global population, you get $8400 – or thereabouts per year for every human being. I was curious.
The standard speed of a motorized hoist for a theatrical application is 179’/minute. That was the closest they could get a commercial gearbox (from Hoffing – so this is sometimes called the Hoffing Standard) to the actual speed of three stagehands hauling a fully-loaded batten. I don’t have the numbers the stagehands achiueved, but that’s where the 179′ came from.
For the writers – the scientific plausibility of a work of science fiction is called – among fandom – its “hardness”. TV Tropes compares it to the Mohs Scale of geologic hardness. Mike Brotherton has a similar scale, and better thought through.
Learning via You-Tube – gravitational lensing
Now you know.
What Have We Learned? 